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Southland Dog Training Club
December 2013
Newsletter
PICNIC at DAFFODIL BAY
A few of us from club had a lovely BBQ at Daffodil
Bay. The weather was kind. We normally go for a walk,
but as there were only a few of us to begin with we
decided to be lazy and set up the Barbie instead, sit
on our chairs and watch the dogs play. Hilarious. Dogs
everywhere, just loving the freedom and enjoying
playing together.
They were all well behaved. Minka and Axel are now
best friends. Hagred (Grahams German Shepherd )
fell in love with Tam so that made for a good mornings
entertainment on its own. It was great to see all the
dogs getting on so well. Minka is a pain on the lead,
but off lead, a totally different dog.
I believe the dog park is a huge success, another
example of how dogs behave away from their own
territory.
Some pics of our well behaved, well trained, awesome doggies.
Hopefully will get more folk next year. Huge thankyou
Dawn, for your BBQ skills and the chocolate Santas.
Happy Xmas all, enjoy time with your family and friends
especially your furry ones,
Cheers Jenny, Cree & Minka.
Southland Dog Training Club
Committee 2013
PRESIDENT
Rae Evans [email protected]
03 205 3000
VICE-PRESIDENT
Sarah Aitken
[email protected]
03 216 0213
TREASURER
Karen Turner [email protected]
03 215 6232
SECRETARY
Judy McGimpsey [email protected]
03 2143121
COMMITTEE
Jo Miller
[email protected]
03 218 3338
Nicky Taylor [email protected]
03 230 4933
Diane Pearsey
[email protected] 03 215 9442
Di Youthed
[email protected]
03 2167076
Elaine Youthed
[email protected] 03 2304 080
Check out our website: www.dogtrainingsouth.com
SAFETY MESSAGE
Club Duties
who do I ask?
Puppy and Public Classes Coordinator 03 2130294 Lynda Lindsay
Advance Puppy Classes Coordinator Jo Miller
Doing Rosters for Wed night and start
and finish of club dates for Obed
Jean McClymont
Providing Trainers for Weds night class’s Sarah Aitken
Contact Person for club Jenny Miller
Keeping the office stationary Dianne Pearcy
Assessments of dogs going up class’s Glenyse Pearce
Training for new stewards and seminars Kim McColl
Competitive nights organization Nicola Templeman
Scent Cloths washed for weds nights
and updating wall planner Helen Brunner
Scent Cloths washed for Ch/R/T Club days Tops Koij
Agility Co-ordinators
Nicky Taylor & Caroline Rain
Rally 0 Co-ordinator
Jo Miller
Hall Maintenance
Forward concerns to committee
Fundraising
ALL CLUB MEMBERS
Hall Cleaning
Newsletter
Dawn Barry
Security Officer
Anita Kemp
Equipment Officer
Refer to committee
Canteen
TBA
Keys
Sarah Aitken
Purchasing Officer
Rae Evans
Link Coordinator
Joanne Rennell
Fly Agility
Marie McDonald
CGC Coordinator
Jenny Miller
Southern Region Obedience Club Delegate
Karen Turner
Show Secretaries Helen Brunner & Elaine Youthed
For the safety of all dogs, handlers and members of the
public, the SDTC Committee requests the following:
Unless you are actually working your dog, they must be on a
lead held by a capable person or shut securely in a vehicle
or crate so that the dog cannot get its head out. Remember,
there are kennels available for use at the back of the hall.
BLUE RIBBON POLICY
The Southland Dog Training Club has a ‘Blue Ribbon Policy’.
If your dog does not enjoy the attention of other dogs or
people, please tie a blue ribbon to its collar. The ribbon will
identify your dog as needing a large personal space. It does
NOT mean that your dog is aggressive.
If you are the owner or handler of a very friendly dog, please
respect other people and dogs and do not let your dog
invade the personal space of any dog or person without
invitation.
Blue ribbons are available from any committee member
REMEMBER!
To toilet your dog BEFORE
coming into the club building.
If your dog messes inside it is YOUR
responsibility to clean it up!
WHAT’S on WHEN
Am emptying Pooh
Wheelie Bin next week.
Can you please take your Pooh
Bags home and dispose of
them there. I will seal bin till
January show. We don’t want
smelly maggoty bins over the
Xmas break.
Cheers Jenny
RAFFLE ITEMS PLEASE
As it seems hampers are the best sellers for
our raffles at our shows I will put the blue tub
in the hall for non perishable donations. If we
all donate 1 item per week there would be
enough to make some awesome hampers.
Also if anyone out there has baskets surplus to
their requirement for the hampers they would
be greatly appreciated and could be left at
the hall for me to collect. Please, this is easy
fundraising money which we desperately need!
AGILITY CALENDAR
2014 Agility Start Up
Sat 4 January
Sun 5 January Link and training.
Gear check and clean.
11 & 12 January
SDTC Champ show
18 & 19 January OCTC Show
Training 10am
Sat 25 Jan
Sun 26 Jan
TBA
Training
Sat 1 Feb
2nd Feb Link & Club Day TBA
Sat 8 Feb
Sun 9 Feb TBA
Training
15th & 16th Feb
Chelsea Marriner Seminar
No Training
Jan 23rd Training
1 & 2 March SDTC Champ show
Hope you are all enjoying the sunshine
and your canine friends. Dianne
January Show Agility
Hi Agiliteers,
all is progressing smoothly for the Show in January.
Trish Cameron and Di Youthed (Trainee)
have agreed to be the Show Managers and will
need your support and positive thoughts during the
show. Thank you to those two.
Jo Rennell and I are the Ring Managers and
also need you support. Thank you to Jo.
You will have e mailed to you the jobs list and
do not forget to get non perishable items to the
show secs office or to Dianne Pearsey for
hamper raffle.
the
Can we please have Agiliteers at the
grounds at 7.45 to set up the first two
courses. This means that we can set up and get
started on time.
Thank you, Elaine Youthed.
Can I please have feedback on the club
days so far held this year. (2013)
So far, the positives are that members who do
not travel and are not an NZKC member get to
compete, they get points towards “Dog of the
year” and we raise money for the club ($700
approx), all at the same time.
Negatives, there were a lot of club days, but
spread out.
The full day was hard work but it got a lot
done in a short space of time, and the 2
courses every so often seemed ok. Feedback
required otherwise I will plan the next years
club days and get it out to you.
Cheers, Elaine
RESULTS RESULTS
CLUB DAY
Sunday 8th December
We held the end of the year Agility Club day and a
dedicated few turned up to compete. The NALA LINK
was a jumpers course set at Jumpers C. We then set up
a Jumpers B and Jumpers A. The good thing about this
is that people are willing to run in their present grade
and try in the next grade up. Its good training. Thank you
to Lenore who did some judging. Awesome handling by
Sarah in a try out in Jumpers A, plus all the usual handling
by everyone. My dog Time finally stayed in the ring.
Thank you to Santa for an early present.
Jumpers C
1st
Blake & Ryley
2nd
Karen & Abby
3rd
Di & Kodi
4th
Elaine & Time
5th
Karen & Ella
6th
Jo & Scamper
7th
Lenore & Dot
8th
Rae & Brooke
9th
Lenore & Fling
0/26.787
0/37.008
0/37.365
5/33.626
5/35.626
5/43.119
5/44.916
10/29.868
10/43.777
Jumpers B
1st
Elaine & Chance 0/30.003
2nd
Jo & Jake
0/32.116
3rd
Rae & Lulu
0/32.737
4th
Judy & Meg
0/33.376
5th
Di & Zoe
0/35.144
6th
Lenore & Mekah 0/37.064
7th
Sarah & Oakley
10/44.810
Jumpers A
1st
Jo & Midge
2nd
Jo & Ruffy
0/42.935
10/40.600
Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Look
after your dogs and make sure they are safe at Christmas
and we will see you in the New Year at Our January show.
Bless you all.
Cheers
Elaine.
From a Northern competitor in both
Agility and Obedience...Thank you
from Sue Tyson and Kaz
Just got home after my 26 days down south……Had
a fab time & saw some interesting places.
May I say Southland show was great, especially
the ladies who went out of their way to make me
very welcome…Southern hospitality at its best…
So pass it on to your club members who were just
awesome…..
And if anyone ventures up our way especially to
Upper Hutt there are plenty of beds available..
FREE..
Cheers
Sue Bess & Kaz
YOUR THOUGHTS SOUGHT
Dear Members,
If you have been looking at what other clubs do you
will see a trend towards some clubs having their
AD & ADXA at their Ribbon Trials.
This might work for them but I firmly believe that
we need to use our AD &
ADXA as a draw card to our
Championship Shows
to bring as many people to our shows as possible,
and being totally mercenary, they then spend money
(canteen and Raffles), and we do no more real work
for 40 competitors as for 60; but we are able to cover
our cost better with more competitors.
The profit then becomes our fund raising. Yeah
Any thoughts, contact me or a committee
member. Cheers Elaine
Agility Gear for sale
Due to regulations changing, the committee has
decided that rather than having non regulation gear
lying around, that we would put the gear up for sale
for tender. This would also help to pay for regulation
gear rather than fund raising for it.
The process would be that you would apply in writing
to the committee (Letter or Email) make an offer
on the gear and then the committee would decide
who the highest bidder was and then sell the gear.
We would expect that the letters/e-mails would be
into the committee by the February 10th meeting or
at that meeting. The successful persons would be
decided upon and notified.
Item descriptions
The old Fluro painted jumps
10 in number. They can be tendered for individually.
(Bars included)
These jumps are no longer regulation and it’s too
costly to make them regulation.
4 sets of wooden wing jumps
(bars included.)
Non regulation tunnels:
One large red tunnel
(Hoops not included)
One smaller red tunnel
(Hoops not included)
One yellow tunnel
(Tags attached for anchoring)
The old collapsible tunnel
This gear can be viewed at the club rooms.
If there are any queries, contact a committee
member.
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WHAT’S on WHEN
January Champ Show
Obedience & RallyO
Billeting Judges
The Committee is finding it increasingly difficult
to get find club members to volunteer with
shows. One of those areas is billeting judges.
We had to arrange motel accommodation for
one of our November obedience judges as
no-one offered to host them. At the time of
writing this, we have had no-one offer to billet
our obedience judges (Lynda & Wayne Loader)
or our Rally-O judge (Lyn Clearwater & her
husband, Ian) contracted for our January 2014
show. Ideally, we would like this small job to
be shared around rather than being left to the
same few people. If the Committee is forced to
accommodate judges in motels, the income for
the relevant show will be reduced by up to $250
per judge per show.
If you are able to host our wonderful judges,
please let me know as soon as possible. Thank
you.
Kind regards,
Jo Miller
TEST MANAGERS
We need Test Managers for OB
for our jan 2014 Show ...
someone to help Jenny Miller
on Saturday also to help
Jo Miller on sunday.
RallyO still needs a test
manager please. If you can
help let Karen know
e mail: [email protected]
Ph: 03 215 6232
FLY Tournament
& SFG AGM
Thurs 6 February 2014
SDTC Grounds
INVERCARGILL
Cost: $3.00 per class
Set-up
8.30am
Entries
9.00am
Start 9:30am
(Not necessarily in this order)
Senior 1
Beginners
Lunch & AGM
Senior 2 or Advanced Intermediate
Intermediate Plate (if time)
Shared Lunch All welcome 
For Sale
Three berth dog trailer
$2,800
Reg till Nov 2014.
New tyres and LED lights.
Suit large dogs. Has been
used for German Shepherds.
This is a good solid trailer
and tows well.
Phone Jenny 2157885
or 027 2157885
RESULTS RESULTS RESULTS RESULTS RESULTS
TAIERI CHAMP SHOW - AGILITY RESULTS
14/15 December 2013
Intermediate 1 Maxi SCT: 55 CL: 163 4 3/58.56 sec
F667
Piccola Sorella Peter Dynan
Diane Youthed
JB 1 Maxi SCT: 38 CL: 128
2 0/28.17 sec
8 0/34.68 sec
Date: 14/12/2013 Peter Dynan
G639
Pickled Pepper
Caroline Rain
Piccola Sorella Diane Youthed
4 5/41.75 Ruffy (Parson Russell Terrier) Joanne Rennell
Starters 2 Maxi SCT: 48 CL: 127 Peter Dynan
9 10/20.07 Dash (Border Collie X)
Dawn Barry
Starters 2 Small SCT: 48 CL: 127 Peter Dynan
4 5/35.21 6 5/46.92
Scamper
Joanne M Rennell
PICCOLO FRATELLO Diane Youthed
JB 1 Midi SCT: 38 CL: 128
Date: 14/12/2013 Peter Dynan
3 0/29.04 Pinehills BBC Delta Dawn Barbara Lowen (H - Jake Remon )
4 0/31.09 sec SHARELL SOUTHERN AMTOLAHTrisha Cameron
7 5/25.46 Caffeine Bounce of Krissamar (Border Collie) Rae Evans
JC 1 Maxi SCT: 38 CL: 125
1
2
5
6
Date: 14/12/2013 Nick Chester
0/24.65
Ell of a Danger (Beardie X) Glenyse Pearse
0/24.69 BENROSIES POLLY WALLY DOODLE R Lock (H - BLowen
0/29.37
NEO (POINTER/COLLIE CROSS) Helen M Brunner
5/20.67
TIME N TIDE ( HEADING DOG) E g Youthed
JC 1 Small SCT: 38 CL: 125 Date: 14/12/2013 Nick Chester
3 0/30.02 TROUBLE’S BREWIN OF CHARIZELLE Joanne M Rennell
9 10/48.58 Tessa (Papillon) Anita Pouls
Novelty SCT: 60 CL: 160 Date: 14/12/2013 Nick Chester
3 0/31.8Hezza Ruffian of Charizelle Joanne Rennell
Novice 1 Small SCT: 50 CL: 135 Date: 14/12/2013 Peter Dynan
4 10/44.52 TROUBLE’S BREWIN OF CHARIZELLE Joanne M Rennell
Senior 1 Maxi SCT: 69 CL: 215
Date: 14/12/2013 Nick Chester
4 5/57.7Pickled Pepper (Working Sheep Dog) Caroline Rain
6 11/70.33
Piccola Sorella (FARM DOG) Diane Youthed
Senior 1 Midi SCT: 69 CL: 215
4 15/58.21
Date: 14/12/2013 Nick Chester
Caffeine Bounce (Border Collie)
Rae Evans
Senior 1 Small SCT: 69 CL: 215 Date: 14/12/2013 Nick Chester
5 10/61.95 Hezza Ruffian of CharizelleJoanne Rennell
Starters 1 Maxi SCT: 45 CL: 125
1 0/27.03
4 0/31.44
8 5/22.05
Date: 14/12/2013 Nick Chester
POLLY WALLY DOODLE R Lock (H - B Lowen )
Fade Trisha Cameron
Dash (Border Collie X)
Dawn Barry
Starters 1 Midi SCT: 45 CL: 125
1 0/22.77
Date: 14/12/2013 Nick Chester
Flair Hot Chocolait (Border Collie)
Rae Evans
Starters 1 Small SCT: 45 CL: 125
ADXA SCT: 49 CL: 146
Date: 14/12/2013 Nick Chester
Date: 15/12/2013 Peter Dynan
Intermediate 2 Maxi SCT: 45 CL: 148 Nick Chester
7 5/40.31 Pickled Pepper (Working Sheep Dog) Caroline Rain
Intermediate 2 Midi SCT: 45 CL: 148 Nick Chester
6 0/38.72 Pinehills BBC Delta Dawn Barbara Lowen (H - Sallie Remon
10 2/47.21
Skipper (Border Collie)
Dawn Barry
Intermediate 2 Small SCT: 45 CL: 148 Date: Nick Chester
8 0/44.44 Midge (Jack Russell Cross) Joanne Rennell
Novice 2 Maxi SCT: 48 CL: 145
1 0/29.95
Date: 15/12/2013 Nick Chester
Chance (Border collie X)
Elaine Youthed
Novice 2 Midi SCT: 48 CL: 145
2 0/28.43
Date: 15/12/2013 Nick Chester
Flair Hot Chocolait (Border Collie)
Rae Evans
Novice 2 Small SCT: 48 CL: 145 Nick Chester
3 0/43.77 TROUBLE’S BREWIN OF CHARIZELLE Joanne M Rennell
9 44/82.77 PICCOLO FRATELLO
Diane Youthed
Senior 2 Midi SCT: 58 CL: 173 Peter Dynan
4 5/46.85 Delta Dawn Barbara Lowen (H - Sallie Remon )
Senior 2 Small SCT: 58 CL: 173 Peter Dynan
1 0/46.23 Midge (Jack Russell Cross) Joanne Rennell
Congrats to all our SDTC
competitors, & especially to
Ellie & Glenys, who (due to injury) haven’t
competed in Agility for ages, & WON JC maxi,
Neo & Helen who also haven’t competed in Agility
for ages & got 5th in JC Maxi,
Barbara & Polly who won starters Maxi
Brooke & Rae who won Starters Midi
Chance & Elaine who won Novice maxi
Midge & Jo who won Senior small
FROM THE COMMITTEE
Club Regulation re:
Eligibility of Puppies
January Show - Judges’
Lunches & Canteen
The Southland Dog Training Club may admit any breed
or cross-breed puppy not younger than 14 weeks
of age which is registered with the owner’s Local
Territorial Authority and which has completed the puppy
vaccinations as advised by the owner’s Veterinarian
against Distemper, Hepatitis and Parvovirus, and
which is supported by provision of a current recognised
Vaccination Certificate upon enrolling in a Southland Dog
Training Club dog training class.
The committee is looking for some wonderful people to
contribute items for the judges lunches at our upcoming
show. 8 people need to be fed. We require the following
items:
The agreed policy is to be published in the newsletter, on
the website and in the next publication of pamphlet.
Obedience
The meeting discussed the possibility of having
an annual trophy for Test C Open now that we
have competing obedience champions. It was
agreed that something is put in the newsletter
to see if one of our members would like to
donate a trophy.
Saturday: 1 x main course, 1 x salad, 1 x potato/pasta/
rice dish, 1 x dessert
Sunday: 1 x main course, 1 x salad, 1 x potato/pasta/rice
dish, 1 x dessert
We would also welcome any donations of food items for
the canteen, e.g. muffins, sweet slices, sandwiches, etc.
Please contact me if you have any queries or to offer your
support. Thank you and have enjoy the holiday season!
Jo Miller
SPCA Collection
Dianne Pearsey advised that the collection
raised just over $1500.
11 SDTC club members participated.
The meeting agreed that a thank you be
put in the newsletter.
Wish List
The meeting confirmed that the number one
priority now was fixing the hall lighting.
Club members to be asked through
the newsletter what things they would
like to be added to the wish list.
Members, end your wishlist & I’ll put in next newsletter....
STORAGE RACKS FOR
AGILITY GEAR ..... like
the simple but effective
ones at OCTC
This has been on the books for years but STILL
we run the risk of impaling ourselves on weave
poles when hauling contact gear out of untidy
piles on the floor.
We seem to be buying more & more gear
while still having ineffective storage.
Thats my wishlist
for what its worth
Dawn B
Thoughts on the November Show (Agility)
What we are trying to do is set a balance in our
lives and run a well organised and positive show.
I personally think that the show was, in the whole
positive and showed our club in a good light. I also
think that most people made a fair effort.
Positives
• Both days started on time.(Enough of our members
were there at the start to set up, like 1 hour prior to
walking the course)
• Ring Managers worked well.
• Time budget was spot on.
• Most people stepped up and did their allotted job
or they re-organised someone to do it so that there
were no gaps in the jobs list.
• There was a smooth transition from one event to the
next.
• Scrimers and Call Board Stewards did a good job
and the show flowed.
• There was less movement of dogs on the running
order.
• People changing the heights were pretty good.
• Lunch break was good.
• Judges were positive, helpful and complimented
competitors.
• Pull down at the end of both days was smooth
especially on Sunday. (Because nobody left early)
Negatives
• Need a list of gear required. (Sorted)
• More people could have helped setting up the
courses during the day.
• Need more jump stewards around the ring on all
four sides. (4 people)
• People felt they were spoken to in an abrupt manner
to do their task. My comments would be, we are
adults, it’s our responsibility to do the work at our
show. We all need to do our fair share and if we
had been doing our task we would not have needed
to have been spoken to. People need to be more
pro active in reading the jobs board or their email.
Unless someone knows another way to share up
the jobs and inform everyone what they are doing
as jobs, then we are stuck with this system.
• No pooh bin at our area and perhaps we need a
supply of plastic bags out in our area.
• Ran out of card for C.R.C. Solved.
• It took too long on Saturday to get prize giving
going, so next time I need to sort the ribbons on the
Friday night.
• The parking issue caused a few tense moments,
we had thought to have competitors park where we
usually had the training jumps and have the training
jumps down beside the ring.
• That issue had a solution but it could have been
solved in a more polite way.
• People telling me there was a problem with their
entry instead of e mailing me as soon as the running
order came out.
(1 week before the show start date)
If anyone has any positive or negative points to make
please let me know and the hope is that we can
improve our show and the running of it. We also have to
remember that we are volunteers and we give up a lot of
time to run each show. We depend on the club members
to bring out the gear, and set up event after event and do
their jobs and if they see a pole down, go to and pick it
up.
Club members need to have jobs allocated to them.
There was an opportunity to volunteer for jobs and only
one person contacted Rae. If a competitor is running in
every event then they need to help set up the courses.
It is unfair that some expect others to do more than their
fair share of the work. This attitude needs to change.
This brings me to the fact that we need a Show Manager
for the January show. If you were unhappy with what
went on in the November Show, well here is your chance
to do it better. We also need a ring manager for each ring,
and if anyone wants to volunteer for any of the other jobs,
please contact me as soon as possible and I can pass
this on to the Show Manager to organise. You could do
one day or both as the Show Manager, or work in tandem
with another person.
We need a Show Manager, 2 ring Managers, a
scrimer, call board steward, lead runner and 4 jump
stewards for every course. Some jobs can be shared
while others need the same person for the whole
course.
Elaine Youthed Show Secretary.
Etiquette or how you should
behave at the ring.
• You should be available for the call steward when they
call you into the line up.
• You should have your toys or food etc in the bucket
when the competitor in front of you begins their run.
• As that person exits the ring you should line your dog
up ready to start.
• You should not continue playing with it, that holds up
the judge and ultimately the show.
• Let the lead runner know what you are doing, so talk
briefly to them.
• Give your number to the Scrimer and check with the
judge that they are ready for you.
• Having run your dog it does not hurt to thank the judge
and/or lead runner and /or scrimer as you walk away
from the ring, be sensible, positive and polite. They
give up their free time to make sure you can run your
dog. If you were one of these people, you would want
to be thanked.
Thank you. Elaine Youthed
SDTC
PO Box 7106
Invercargill 9844
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